Recorded Future, GreenBytes, Seahorse, & More Boston-Area Dealmakers

We saw plenty of deals coming out of local cleantech, IT, life sciences, and electronics startups.

—Last week Cambridge, MA-based Recorded Future raised a $12 million venture financing round from Balderton Capital, Google Ventures, Atlas Venture, and In-Q-Tel. The startup’s software scours information on the Web to answer questions on subjects from civil unrest to the stock market.

—Seahorse Bisciences, a North Billerica, MA-based maker of equipment for biomedical research and drug discovery, raised $9.4 million in equity- and options-based funding, an SEC filing shows.

—Ashaway, RI-based data storage company GreenBytes nabbed $12 million in a Series B financing led by Al Gore-co-founded Generation Investment Management. The deal also included Battery Ventures and GreenBytes management.

—Visterra, a Cambridge-based startup developing treatments for infectious diseases, inked a $12.9 million equity- and options-based investment from eight investors, according to an SEC filing.

—Bedford, MA-based iRobot (NASDAQ: [[ticker:IRBT]]) announced it inked two deals with the U.S. Army for its PackBot robots, worth a total of $6 million.

—Qualtre, a maker of inertial sensors for consumer and industrial electronics, raised another $10 million in funding from Matrix Partners and Pilot House Ventures, with debt financing from Eastward Capital Partners. The Marlborough, MA-based firm will use the funding to expand its gyroscope technology to other consumer and industrial applications.

—Khosla Ventures led a Series B round for Cambridge-based Liquid Metal Battery that was joined by return investors Bill Gates and the energy company Total. Read more about the startup’s energy storage technology here.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.